Fashion the Future

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Freecycling Izmir: an Ethical Outlook for Future Fashion Designers*

Within the context of social responsibility and environmental awareness in design, a group of students were assigned the task of designing and producing a recyc-led bag to highlight, either a specific social problem, or environmental cause prevalent in the city of Izmir, Turkey. To realise their designs, students were asked to adopt the idea of “Freeganism” whereby they may only reclaim and uti...

Designing in the Context of Fashion – Designing the Fashion Context

Fashion is a collective cultural phenomenon generated by the individual but linked to actions of a very large number of garment designers aiming to create distinctive but similar clothes. This paper outlines the mental processes, behavioural strategies and working patterns through which fashion and knitwear designers actively construct the contexts – their visual environments as well as memorie...

The Problem with Fashion

A continuing focus on subcellular processes could result in neglect of the framework through which these small processes are integrated. This focus could be particularly problematic in the cardiovascular system in which a patient’s clinical condition depends on the function of the whole system, specifically the pumping of blood and its distribution. These are currently less fashionable areas of...

The Perception of Fashion: